2019

April

2018

October

6th GA4GH Plenary Meeting convenes 450+ individuals in Basel, Switzerland to present the first set of deliverables developed under GA4GH Connect. The meeting is co-sponsored by SIB-Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and ELIXIR.

May

January

First rare disease diagnosis made via Matchmaker Exchange links the gene EXTL3 to nine patients across five families around the globe with skeletal, neurological, and immunological abnormalities. The research was published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

2016

December

Ewan Birney, Co-Director of EMBL-EBI, becomes the third Chair of the GA4GH Steering Committee.

Thomas Hudson, then President of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, becomes the second Chair of the GA4GH Steering Committee.

June

3rd GA4GH Plenary Meeting in Leiden, Netherlands, brings together 200+ individuals to discuss implementation of tools and approaches, the need to integrate with other data sharing efforts, and the importance of global and sector diversity among GA4GH membership.

February

BRCA Challenge launches to advance understanding of hereditary breast, ovarian, and other cancers associated with variants in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.